Patrick Freyne’s top TV shows of 2026: Lola Petticrew, a bearded grump and Siobhán McSweeney’s sneaky Irish
Brilliant Irish actor Lola Petticrew (just a normal Irish name) stars in Elizabeth Meriwether’s Disney crime drama, Furious.
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Mark Rylance on theatre, film and his family’s tragedy: ‘For me, love is stronger than death’
The actor’s beloved stepdaughter, Nataasha van Kampen, died aged 28 in 2012
The Age of Static: Can we really understand a country by its TV?
Book review: Phil Harrison’s zippy analysis needs to make a more robust argument about Britain
Mackenzie Crook as Worzel Gummidge: ‘A lot of things don’t add up’
The Office and Pirates of the Caribbean star was drawn to the role of the TV scarecrow
The Office: It wasn’t a plan, here’s how we get famous. It was never that
English writer Stephen Merchant on helming Fight With My Family, trying to move away from satire and revisiting The Office
Britannia: A half-baked substitute for Game of Thrones
At a time when Britain’s identity is in crisis, Britannia belatedly attempts to construct one
Comparing Britannia with Game of Thrones? ‘We live with it’
David Morrissey who plays Aulus Plautius in epic historical drama Britannia says the comparisons are inevitable
Children’s Books: Still capturing the castle – and teenage readers – 65 years on
Dodie Smith’s classic ‘I Capture the Castle’ never loses its appeal
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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